The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded measured a staggering 33 metres in length ... For comparison, the Museum's giant squid Archie measures in at 8.62 metres long. Despite their enormous size, whale ...

Take the biggest of the bunch the blue whale. It weighs more than a Boeing 757. Has a belly button the size of a plate. And its network of blood vessels, if you laid them out in a line ...

from the 30-meter blue whale to the two-meter dwarf sperm whale. However, almost all of the largest family by size, the ...

The modern blue whale has long been considered the largest and heaviest animal ever, beating out all the giant dinosaurs of the distant past. But Perucetus colossus – the colossal whale from ...

The newly slimmed-down size estimate puts the Perucetus ... to a weight less than half that of the largest known blue whales. The fossil skeleton of the whale, known as Perucetus colossus, was ...

Only some of the very biggest blue whale specimens might have rivalled ... "The fossils were actually discovered 13 years ago, but their size and shape meant it took three years just to get ...

Previously, the largest known animal in the world was the blue whale, weighing up to 180 tons and reaching 100 ... mammals were abundant and the first whales appeared. The estimated size and mass of ...

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...